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... heads ; should any persons , therefore , prefer another arrangement of the reading course , they can easily make it for themselves . The Geographical Lessons have been written with a view of recalling and of generalizing what the ...
... heads ; should any persons , therefore , prefer another arrangement of the reading course , they can easily make it for themselves . The Geographical Lessons have been written with a view of recalling and of generalizing what the ...
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... heads , we call it noon or mid - day ; after he has set we call it evening ; and when the twilight which remains after he has set , has quite faded , and the darkness sets in , and the stars are spangling the sky , we call it night ...
... heads , we call it noon or mid - day ; after he has set we call it evening ; and when the twilight which remains after he has set , has quite faded , and the darkness sets in , and the stars are spangling the sky , we call it night ...
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... heads , And ate ev'ry leaf that was green . Thus Richard the idle , who shrunk from the cold , Beheld his trees naked and bare ; While Harry , the active , was charm'd to behold The fruit of his patience and care . con - sid - er - ed ...
... heads , And ate ev'ry leaf that was green . Thus Richard the idle , who shrunk from the cold , Beheld his trees naked and bare ; While Harry , the active , was charm'd to behold The fruit of his patience and care . con - sid - er - ed ...
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... heads ; but in both countries they are now completely extirpated . Notwithstanding the ferocity of their nature , wolves have been tamed . The natives of North America , before the introduction of dogs , employed them in hunting , and ...
... heads ; but in both countries they are now completely extirpated . Notwithstanding the ferocity of their nature , wolves have been tamed . The natives of North America , before the introduction of dogs , employed them in hunting , and ...
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... head , which will extricate us from our difficulty Do you , " said he to the goat , " only rear yourself on your hinder legs , and rest your fore - feet against the side of the pit ; in this posture , I will climb up to your head ...
... head , which will extricate us from our difficulty Do you , " said he to the goat , " only rear yourself on your hinder legs , and rest your fore - feet against the side of the pit ; in this posture , I will climb up to your head ...
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Page 75 - And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of Heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not, for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is'. 'Arise lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation'.
Page 216 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Page 76 - Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
Page 94 - And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou and thy children and thy children's children, and thy flocks and thy herds and all that thou hast. And there will I nourish thee (for yet there are five years of famine), lest thou and thy household and all that thou hast come to poverty.
Page 93 - And we said, We cannot go down. If our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down : for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us.
Page 77 - And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him; for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
Page 127 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
Page 99 - By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season...
Page 43 - And, looking o'er the hedge, before me I espied A snow-white mountain Lamb with a Maiden at its side. No other sheep were near, the Lamb was all alone, And by a slender cord was tethered to a stone ; With one knee on the grass did the little Maiden kneel While to that Mountain Lamb she gave its evening meal.
Page 93 - Now therefore, when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life; it shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die : and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy- servant our father with sorrow to the grave.